{"id":77457,"date":"2025-10-13T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/77457\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:09:08","slug":"national-funding-needed-to-help-people-return-to-work-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/77457\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;National funding&#8217; needed to help people return to work in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unable to consider returning to his previous job, Kristian and Beckie spent years focusing on recovery and rehabilitation. But both wanted to escape a life on disability benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We could have quite easily and comfortably not worked, and lived off the benefits that we&#8217;d received,&#8221; Beckie said. &#8220;We had a discussion and decided that&#8217;s not how we wanted to move forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kristian added: &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a 15-year-old daughter as well, and we wanted to show her you can work, earn money and have a better life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was a struggle to get started in business. The couple received a \u00a320,000 start-up loan from the British Business Bank but said other lenders would not consider them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t look great on paper, financially,&#8221; said Beckie. &#8220;Neither of us have bad credit, but we just didn&#8217;t have any money!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A mentor from the bank advised them on the process of establishing the business, and was central to their journey back into work after depending on benefits since 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unable to consider returning to his previous job, Kristian and Beckie spent years focusing on recovery and rehabilitation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[72,61,60,150],"class_list":["post-77457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}